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<\/p>\nBreaking\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na cordon off a section of Henry Street Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos<\/p>\n
A man in his 30s has died following an alleged shoplifting incident in Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n
The man was first detained by security personnel after allegedly shoplifting a shop on Henry Street on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
A garda spokesperson has said that shortly after 5pm, garda\u00ed were alerted to the matter.<\/p>\n
During the course of the incident, the suspected attempted to flee and an elderly man in his 80s was injured.<\/p>\n
The injured man in his 80s was taken by ambulance to the Mater Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
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An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na cordon off a section of Henry Street Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos<\/p>\n
News in 90 seconds – Saturday, May 16 <\/p>\n
The detained man subsequently became unresponsive at the scene and was transported by ambulance to the Mater Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson added: \u201cThe scene was preserved and has since been forensically examined. The Coroner has been notified and the Office of the State Pathologist will conduct a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe results of the post-mortem will assist Garda\u00ed in determining the course of their investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to come forward and are appealing for anyone with video footage from the area to contact them.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a spokesperson for Fiosru said: \u201cFiosr\u00fa, Office of the Police Ombudsman, received a referral from An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na on Friday, 15 May 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe referral was made by a Garda Superintendent under section 203(1) of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024.<\/p>\n
“The referral was made as a result of an incident which involved the death of an individual in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n
“Fiosr\u00fa\u2019s on call team of investigators attended the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na cordon off a section of Henry Street Photo: Sam Boal\/Collins Photos A man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-452024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}